The Covid-19 cases in India continued to witness a declining trend in the country with 58,419 new cases recorded on Sunday, lowest in the last 81 days. In the same time span, 1,576 fatalities were reported which was lowest in 63 days, according to data released by the Government.
India recorded less than 60,000 new coronavirus infections after 81 days taking the total tally of Covid-19 cases to 2,98,81,965, while the active cases further reduced to 7,29,243. The death toll climbed to 3,86,713 fatalities.
The active cases further declined to7,29,243 comprising 2.44 per cent of the
total infections, while the national Covid-19 recovery rate improved to 96.27 per cent. A net decline of 30,776 cases has been recorded in the ovid-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.
As many as 18,11,446 tests were conducted on Saturday taking the total cumulative tests conducted so far for detection of Covid-19 in the country to 39,10,19,083.
The daily positivity rate was recorded at 3.22 per cent. It has been less than 5 per cent for 13 consecutive days, the ministry said, adding the weekly positivity rate has declined to 3.43 per cent.
Recoveries continue to outnumber daily new cases for the 38th consecutive day. The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 2,87,66,009, while the case fatality rate stands at 1.29 per cent, the data stated.
India’s Covid-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16.
It went past 60 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19.India crossed the grim milestone of 2 crore on May 4.